Pretty in Pink: A Portrait of Queen Olga of Greece at the Benaki Museum
Lecture by George Manginis Academic Director Benaki Museum in Athens Saturday, January 11, 2025 4:00 p.m. 314 Royce Hall, UCLA Campus Reception to follow
Conversation following the lecture with Sharon Gerstel, Director, UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture.
On the third floor of the Benaki Museum in central Athens hangs a portrait of Queen Olga, the consort of Greece’s second king, painted a few years after her wedding to George I. In March 2021, the portrait, attributed to an unknown artist, was included in the Museum’s anniversary exhibition celebrating the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution. This lecture will unfold the story of this radiant but enigmatic painting, from its creation to its bequest to the Museum, offering surprising insights into 19th– and 20th– century Greek and European history. | 
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